Film Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

In the past few years, the feeling of excitement and wonderment I’d once gotten out of big-budget summer tentpoles has been missing; I assumed I’d outgrown it. But with the latest entry in the “Star Trek” franchise, J.J. Abrams has brought that anticipation back to the summer movie line-up. With “Star Trek: Into Darkness,” Abrams …

PREVIEW REVIEW: August 26, 2011

COLOMBIANA: This looks, from the brief previews I’ve seen, like Steven Soderbergh’s next movie Haywire.  Maybe they’re different, but they seem to both be about a trained kick-ass girl out for revenge.  This one looks a little more stylized and less thought driven as Soderbergh’s, but not having seen either, I can’t say for sure.  The PG-13 always throws me …

Vatche Reviews: Avatar

Having been forced to wait over a week to see it, it’s been hard for me not to be influenced by what other people had to say about it. Universally, the consensus from my peers has been, see this movie.Now.Up until then, I’d avoided every single piece of promotional information, review, and no opinion greater …